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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

3 Best Plants for Sunny Windowsills

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today we're looking at a few recommendations for plants that will bloom and grow in a bright, sunny windowsill. Back with Maria Failla of Bloom and Grow! Learn More:  https://www.bloomandgrowradio.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bloomandgrowradio/  Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. I'm here with Maria from

0:05.7

Bloom and Grow Radio. If you've been listening for the first two episodes, we've

0:09.4

kind of gone over a primer of Plant Care indoors, light, water. Now we're getting into some more specifics.

0:15.9

What about specific locations in the home? So today's episode's all about sunny windowsills. And again, we need to remember not all windows

0:24.8

are created equal, but I'm going to let Maria come in here and just give you guys

0:28.8

the download on some really cool plants that you can grow directly in a window sill.

0:34.2

I'm giving you the DL. She's got the DL guys. I got the DL on windowsills.

0:41.9

Yeah, so not when the window cells aren't created equal if you need some guidance on that head back to our episode on light to learn some hacks.

0:52.0

But if you're lucky enough to have a southern facing super sunny

0:55.3

window just like me, congratulations, especially if you live in a city that is hard to come by. So succulents I think have gotten a bad rap

1:06.7

because they're supposed to be the plant that anybody can keep a succulent alive. I

1:12.2

think they're like wedding favors.

1:13.9

They're always at like, they're, you know,

1:16.8

they're right at the register

1:18.0

that you could grab and purchase.

1:19.2

People buy them and then they don't put them in enough light

1:22.2

and they die and then they think they're plant

1:23.8

killers. I know this was personally my experience and I know a lot of other people who have gone through it.

1:28.6

So the sunny window sill is where succulents are allowed to go and that's pretty much it or they're going to do something they're going to is it pronounced ateliation

1:40.0

etioliation I think it's Eteolate. They're going to Eteolation. Which means grow towards the sun. So when succulents don't get enough sunlight, they grow, having their leaves trying to reach for the sun and when I was

1:56.2

starting off I thought oh my god my succulents are growing so fast they're doing so well

2:00.1

no they weren't doing well. They were looking for more sunlight. So succulents are

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